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Our researchers are driving innovation across the entire hardware, software and network stack to make computer systems more reliable, efficient and secure.

From internet-scale networks, to next-generation chip designs, to deep learning frameworks and more, we build and refine the devices and applications that individuals, industries and, indeed, entire economies depend upon every day.

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Naomi Alterman

Faculty


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Tom Anderson

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Aleksandr Aravkin

Adjunct Faculty


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Jean-Loup Baer

Emeritus Faculty


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Magdalena Balazinska

Faculty


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Leilani Battle

Faculty


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David Beck

Adjunct Faculty


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Gilbert Bernstein

Faculty


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Karl Böhringer

Adjunct Faculty


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Alan Borning

Emeritus Faculty


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Luis Ceze

Faculty


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Andrea Coladangelo

Faculty


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Andrew Connolly

Adjunct Faculty


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Carl Ebeling

Emeritus Faculty


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Susan Eggers

Emeritus Faculty


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Michael Ernst

Faculty


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Elba Garza

Faculty


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Dan Grossman

Faculty


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Scott Hauck

Adjunct Faculty


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Jeffrey Heer

Faculty


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Kurtis Heimerl

Faculty


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Bruce Hemingway

Emeritus Faculty


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Bill Howe

Adjunct Faculty


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Vikram Iyer

Faculty


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Lalit Jain

Adjunct Faculty


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René Just

Faculty


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Baris Kasikci

Faculty


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Amy J. Ko

Adjunct Faculty


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David Kohlbrenner

Faculty


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Arvind Krishnamurthy

Faculty


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Ed Lazowska

Emeritus Faculty


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Hank Levy

Emeritus Faculty


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Huijia (Rachel) Lin

Faculty


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Ratul Mahajan

Faculty


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Chinmay Nirkhe

Faculty


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Mark Oskin

Faculty


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Simon Peter

Faculty


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Matt Reynolds

Adjunct Faculty


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Franziska Roesner

Faculty


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Alan Shaw

Emeritus Faculty


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Joshua Smith

Faculty


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Michael Stiber

Adjunct Faculty


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Dan Suciu

Faculty


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Zachary Tatlock

Faculty


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Michael Bedford Taylor

Faculty


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Stefano Tessaro

Faculty


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Nirvan Tyagi

Faculty


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Stephanie Wang

Faculty


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James R. Wilcox

Faculty


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John Zahorjan

Emeritus Faculty


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Dongfang Zhao

Adjunct Faculty

Highlights

Allen School News

Zhihan Zhang receives Google Ph.D. Fellowship in health research


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The fellowship will support Zhang’s work in sustainable ubiquitous computing, including the development of recyclable electronics and leveraging artificial intelligence to estimate carbon footprints and provide personalized health insights.



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Allen School News

Researchers explore smart technologies for tiny house villages


The Nickelsville Northlake tiny house village.

In a Q&A, professor Kurtis Heimerl and postdoc Esther Han Beol Jang (Ph.D., ‘24) discuss their work with residents of two Seattle tiny house villages on how they can leverage smart technologies to improve living conditions, balanced against concerns such as cost and continuity of deployment.



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Allen School News

Professor Jeffrey Heer receives InfoVis 10-Year Test of Time Award


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To help make datasets easier to explore, in 2015, a team of researchers led by Heer introduced Voyager, a system that automatically generates and recommends charts and visualizations based on statistical and perceptual measures — which earned the InfoVis 10-Year Test of Time Award at IEEE VIS 2025.



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